Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, 5008 D
La vraie hystoire de Troye (final rubric)
General information
Folios | 157 |
Folio notes: | The first folio is wanting. |
Language | Language object (57) |
Approx. date | ?1400 to 1499 |
Date notes | 'XVe siècle' (Jung 1996, 456). |
Place(s) of production | GrenobleJung hypothesises - on the basis of orthography and provenance - that the MS was copied in the Dauphiné (1996, 456). |
First words of second recto folio | |
First words of last recto folio | |
Incipit | [f. 1r] Et pour mieulx continuer l'euvre (Jung 1996, 456) |
Explicit | [f. 157r] en tel mainiere que nul n'y pourroit riens adjoindre ne muer qui pour vray deust estre mué. // C'est la fin de la vraie hystoire de Troye, la ou tant de roys et princes morurent en tant de douleureuses batailles pour si petit de occasion comme dit est. // (Jung 1996, 456) |
Material
Material: | Material object (1) |
Watermark: | Ox head crowned with a St Andrew's cross (cf. Briquet 15039-117; see JONAS). |
Condition: | |
Structure
Collation: | 1142163-6147158189161014116 (JONAS) |
Quire structure: | Chiefly octonions, but several quires lost their outer bifolium before the text was copied (JONAS). |
Quire marks: | MSQuiremarkDisposition object (18) |
Catchwords: | |
Catchword disposition: | |
Physical description
General illustration: | |
General decoration: | Red or green pen-flourished initials, with decoration in the contrasting colour. |
Evidence of readership: | |
Foliations description: | Modern foliation. |
Mise en page
Description 1 | Source: Jung 1996, 456. |
Page sampled | |
Layout | MSLayout object (3) |
Page dimensions | 295x211 (mm) |
Justification | 158x95 (mm) |
Columns | 1mm between columns |
Lines | 25 |
Rubrication | |
Writing above top line? | False |
Sample page layout: | |
Hand(s)
Level of Execution: | Execution object (3) |
Script | Script object (7) |
Folio range | From 1r to 157r |
Date | ?1400 to 1499 |
Scribe description: | Angular (JONAS). |
Notes | |